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EV Developments at the Beijing Auto Show 2024
This report summarizes China’s largest automotive event, the Beijing Auto Show 2024. It compiles the most interesting premieres, technological revelations, and the latest announced development strategies of electric and hybrid vehicle manufacturers.
Apple Vision Pro Battery Essentials
The A2733 battery manufactured by Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) that was extracted from Apple's flagship spatial computer, the Apple Vision Pro. The battery module is formed with three identical battery cells connected in series, generating a total capacity of 3969 mAh.
Tracker: Global Fitness Band Vendor Market Share by Region: 2024 Q1
Global Fitness Band shipments slowed their decline to just 21% YoY during Q1 2024, after three consecutive quarters of over 40% declines. Slumping demand for the market leading Xiaomi Mi Band line as well as a market exit from Samsung, in addition to macroeconomic weakness, geopolitical uncertainty, and continued high inflation stifling consumer discretionary spending contributed to the downtick.
Smartphone Image Sensor Market Share Q1 2024: Demand Drives Volume Growth
The smartphone image sensor market experienced a growth of 5% in Q1 2024. The recovery in the end-market boosted the orders of high-resolution CIS products to meet the smartphone specification demand. Sony Semiconductor held the top spot managing over 55% share, followed by Samsung System LSI and OMNIVISION in the quarter.
Q1 2024 – Transsion: Africa’s Phone King Continues to Expand Internationally
Transsion retained its position as the fourth largest smartphone vendor and the leading feature phone player in Q1 2024. Its three in-house brands – Tecno, Infinix and itel – collectively shipped 28.5 million smartphones and 20.5 million feature phones.
Insight: Q1 2024 Smart Speaker Results- A sluggish start but generative AI fueled growth is on the horizon
Global smart speaker and display shipments reached 29 million units in Q1 2024, a year-over-year (YoY) drop of 7 percent. While global economic uncertainty is a contributing factor to lackluster sales, the market is reaching a level of maturity in the US and China as well as parts of Western Europe and household penetration growth rates have slowed considerably.
Walmart Takes Next Step in CTV Market After Vizio Acquisition
Coming on the heels of its acquisition of smart TV manufacturer Vizio in February 2024 for $2.3 billion, pending regulatory approval, Walmart made its next move in the connected TV space with the launch the Onn 4K Pro Streaming Device.
Component Price Landscape (CPL) Biweekly Update - Discrete Semiconductors and Passives
Discrete Semiconductors and Passives categories price decrease trend continued in Q1 2024 and is expected come to an end is Q2. We anticipate prices to increase in 2H 2024 for both segments. Lead times are expected to be relatively flat in most categories throughout 2024 except for discrete and passives components.
Report Overview: Three Cool Things Samsung Record High ASP
Learn more about why Samsung’s models are gaining traction and developing nations as well as why an overall decline in revenue and shipments from last year doesn’t tell the full story on Samsung’s outlook for 2024 and beyond.
Introducing TSMC N3E As Seen In Apple M4 SoC
TechInsights shares preliminary results of the Apple M4 analysis on design blocks like GPU and CPU, featuring 2-1 finFLEX and 3-2 finFLEX libraries, respectively. Dive into our on-going analysis and discover the measurements of critical dimensions of TSMC’s 3nm 2nd generation process node: the N3E technology node.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Digital Floorplan Analysis
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 (SM8650) application processor found in the Xiaomi 14 Pro 5G handset, features a CPU cluster composed of eight cores - this time swapping some efficient CPU cores for more powerful mid-size cores (vs the Snapdragon 8 Gen2).
Smartphone Image Sensor Market Share Q1 2024: Demand Drives Volume Growth
The smartphone image sensor market experienced a growth of 5% in Q1 2024. The recovery in the end-market boosted the orders of high-resolution CIS products to meet the smartphone specification demand.
Smartphone Image Sensor Shipments by CIS Model with Specifications: Q1 2024
The global smartphone image sensor market registered over 7% unit growth in Q1 2024. The growth was supported by the revival in market demand, driving the stocking of CIS for customer's new smartphone products. GalaxyCore GC02M1 series dominated shipments followed Samsung S5KJN1 series and Sony IMX714 series, together claiming over 180 million units shipped during the quarter.
Forecast: Automotive Semiconductor and Sensor Demand
This global forecast covers historical and future semiconductor and sensor demand for the automotive industry in USD and units. In 2024, automotive semiconductor demand is forecast to grow by 13% in USD to reach $80 billion; unit growth is expected at 7% surpassing 113 billion.
Survey Plus Teardown of the Tecno Spark Go 2024 BG6 Smartphone
The Tecno Spark Go 2024 BG6 is one of the latest Tecno smartphones. This device is one of the latest variants from Tecno Spark Go line and the successor to the Tecno Spark Go 2023.
Deep Dive Teardown of the Amazon Echo Show 8 3rd Gen R855D6 Smart Display
The design wins for the Amazon Echo Show 8 3rd Gen is divided between different manufacturers. The application processor comes from Amlogic while WiFi Front-end comes from Mediatek. As for the memory, SK Hynix provided 2 GB LPDDR4 SDRAM and Samsung provided 8 GB MLC NAND flash.
GalaxyCore GC32E1 Standard Floorplan Analysis
The ISP from the periphery region of the Galaxycore GC32E1, a back-illuminated (BI) CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) for mobile cameras, was extracted from the Tecno Spark 20 front camera.
Canon LI5030SAC Device Essentials Folder
The Canon LI5030SAC is a Bayer color, 6.4 μm, front-illuminated (FI) charge domain global shutter (GS) full frame (FF) CIS for machine vision applications, acquired as a standalone part.